Mainstream uses for photodynamic therapy (PDT) in dermatology include nonmelanoma skin cancer and its precursors, acne vulgaris, photorejuvenation, and hidradenitis suppurativa. Many other dermatologic entities have been treated with PDT, including psoriasis, lichen planus, lichen sclerosus, scleroderma, cutaneous T cell lymphoma, alopecia areata, verruca vulgaris, Darier's disease and tinea in...

⊇ Basic ⊇ Congruence ⊇ Division of sets of intervals, those sets closed under taking (a) similar intervals, (b) sub-intervals, (c) abutting intervals, (d) suprema, respectively. We let B(Λ) and D(Λ) be the family of all basic sets and division sets, respectively. Abstract and basic sets are not particularly important, but the do help with the organization. However, observe that the family B(Λ) ...

were marijuana users and almost a third of all teenagers polled answered that they or some close friendI used marijuania. It is the rare person today wh0o does not have a frienid or relative wlho has tried pot, and a large number of people certainly know incidenits of its use even in the grammar schools. Solomon Snycler has assembled a concise, intelligenit treatise on some important aspects of...

The eye is a unique sensory structure, which must be evaluated for toxicity to determine the safety of drugs, industrial chemicals, and consumer products. Changes in the structure and/or function of ocular tissues following systemic administration of a potential new drug in preclinical animal models can result in significant delays in the development of a new therapeutic and in some cases lead ...

Formation of triple helix structures using chromosomal DNA has many diagnostic and therapeutic uses. One such use is for the development of a general method for gene mutation correction directly on the chromosome. A prerequisite for this approach to be a viable form of gene therapy is the successful transfection of modest sizes single stranded deoxyoligonucleotides into mammalian cells. Specifi...

The current clinical use of psychotropic drugs is transnosologically oriented. This is facilitated by the current classification of mental disorders (International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision [ICD-10]) and is perhaps justified if depression and psychosis (taken here as examples) are considered as being complex syndromes with heterogeneous etiologies, but common pathogenesis, more ...